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Kammer, Jenna; Hays, Lauren – Education Libraries, 2021
This overview demonstrates the need for school librarians to consider supplementing coding instruction with ethical discussions. School librarians are increasingly incorporating coding into library instruction through play, tutorials, collaboration in content areas, and design thinking projects. To enhance students' ethical decision making and…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Ethical Instruction, Programming, Computer Science Education
Rinio, Deborah – ALA Editions, 2020
Using STEAM activities, this book places school librarians at the intersection with inquiry in an elementary school. Learners will think like a scientist and design like an engineer using an iterative process to make authentic learning connections and develop a growth mindset. Designed to be completed in 30-minute class periods, 14 scaffolded…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Elementary School Students, Authentic Learning
Hamm, Susannah – Library Journal, 2011
A hundred years after Marie Curie received her Nobel Prize in Chemistry, this arm of science is pointing the way to a more sustainable future. Growing movements like green chemistry, which strives to create alternative and new chemical reactions that produce no harmful waste products, and molecular engineering hold great potential for industry,…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Encyclopedias, College Libraries, Library Services
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Bush, Gail; Jones, Jami L. – School Library Media Research, 2010
This article reports the findings of an exploratory study to identify professional dispositions of school librarians. The authors employed the Delphi method, a qualitative research method that emphasizes expert knowledge and consensus within a particular field. The Delphi panel consisted of members of the editorial boards of nationally recognized…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Library Education, Qualitative Research, School Libraries
Dow, Mirah J. Ingram – School Library Monthly, 2010
School librarians currently speak about school libraries as the largest classroom in the building. If so, how can these librarians describe what they teach? This article explains the user-centered instructional role of secondary school librarians in teaching information and technology literacy skills, as well as how they can authoritatively ensure…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Information Technology, Literacy, Librarians
Todd, Ross – School Library Journal, 2008
School Library Journal's 2007 Leadership Summit, "Where's the Evidence? Understanding the Impact of School Libraries," focused on the topic of evidence-based practice. Evidence-based school librarianship is a systematic approach that engages research-derived evidence, school librarian-observed evidence, and user-reported evidence in the processes…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Role, Librarians, Academic Achievement
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Moreillon, Judi – Knowledge Quest, 2009
The Position Statement on the School Library Media Specialist's Role in Reading, adopted by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Board in February 2009, is a guide to help practitioners build library programs that support every learner's development in reading. As part of the Learning4Life (L4L) plan to implement the Standards for…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Lifelong Learning, Motivation, School Libraries
Holloway, Mary A. – Technological Horizons in Education, 1988
Discusses the need to develop more efficient information retrieval skills by the use of new technology. Lists four stages used in automating the media center. Describes North Carolina's pilot programs. Proposes benefits and looks at the media center's future. (MVL)
Descriptors: Automation, Computers, Databases, Educational Media
Triggs, Phyllis; Burt, Jane – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Describes a workshop offered by elementary library media specialists for teachers and administrators which illustrated ways in which media specialists can support and enhance curriculum. Included are detailed examples of activities and projects in social science, language arts, and science which have been implemented in Maryland schools. (CLB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Learning Activities
School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Provides fully developed library media activities designed to be used in connection with specific curriculum units in art, reading and language arts, music, science, and social studies. For each activity, the objectives of the exercise, resources, instructional roles of librarians and teachers, procedures involved, evaluation, and follow-up…
Descriptors: Art Education, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Learning Modules
School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1991
Provides fully developed library media activities that are designed to be used in connection with specific curriculum units. Topics covered include art (U.S. folk art); reading/language arts (dramatizing story events); science (simple machines); and social studies (state and federal legislatures, and explorers). (LRW)
Descriptors: Art Education, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Dramatic Play, Elementary School Science
School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Provides fully developed library media activities designed to be used in connection with specific curriculum units in health, music, reading and language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. For each activity, the objectives of the exercise, resources, instructional roles of librarians and teachers, procedures involved, evaluation, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Health Education, Language Arts, Learning Activities
School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Provides fully developed library media activities designed to be used in connection with specific curriculum units in music, reading and language arts, science, and social studies. For each activity, the objectives of the exercise, resources, instructional roles of librarians and teachers, procedures involved, evaluation, and follow-up activities…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Language Arts, Learning Activities
Whitely, Faye McConnell – 1987
Designed to assist the librarian and/or teacher by serving as a checklist for a basic collection of reference materials, this annotated bibliography presents a list of reference sources that are appropriate for Alabama students in grades 7 through 12. The reference materials are intended to support the curriculum of a comprehensive public…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Atlases, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias
Manning, Pat; Newman, Alan R. – School Library Journal, 1986
Discusses the problem of serious dangers in current and backlist chemistry experiment books. Discarding of older books and careful evaluation of the dangers inherent in newer books are recommended. Safe alternatives are suggested, including some criteria for evaluating dangers, and a safer approach used by a current author. (EM)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers
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